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Booladjirra:
Baalhoombar dhundhitjal gundjaadj diduja wemba djindjam wingirr.
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Wait, what? Heh, heh... What’s a context marker? There is almost certainly a correct term for it, but in this case it’s a combination of honorific speech, evidentiality marking, and reference to the setting. For example in the phrase Lhandjihamumbar wendu, naandenuruga jarra /l̪aɲɟiʔamumbaɹ wɛndu n...

I’ve no problem with it. With what language? Bellissimo! I think I might try Booladjirra. Just the name Booladjirra makes me think it's con-Australian. To a degree…I thought about using Irthironian, which is basically con-Manx derived from con-Australian, but Booladjirra’s got a rather nice set of ...

Man in Space wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 4:10 pm

Pedant wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 3:49 pmToo late to join?

I’ve no problem with it. With what language?

Bellissimo! I think I might try Booladjirra.

Too late to join?

Well, that made for an interesting year. 6,000 words made, but only one language brought to over 1,000. Over 300,000 words written on various stories, none of which I can sell.

A NADDER MYTH The Nadder culture known as Tranquil Contemplation Amongst Peers (also Hesychia ) gave us the most consistent rendition of the myth of the two suns. (Please note that all individuals should be assumed as both male and female, and the use of pronouns depends on context more than anythi...

I like that a lot. I'm not entirely sure of what the native lifeforms are doing with their eggs? If I get it, they send them in the day side, and they'll hatch whenever the currents send them to the terminator again? Many thanks! Ah, perhaps I wasn’t very clear there, pardon. Basically, the eggs ar...

THE ARK-BUILDERS Planet: Wedjat Wedjat is that rare thing in the Crayfish Nebula, a functioning “hot eyeball” world. Tidally locked to its sun, Aten , Wedjat is divided into three rough zones. The Night is cold and frozen, the golden moon Khonsu being the only thing to light the surface and keep th...

Just as a query for all and sundry: There are some stories which everyone knows, for a given value of everyone. Not too long ago Up Here, knowing the stories in the Bible would have been essential for one’s education. We learn Shakespeare in school (and tend to miss out on some of the best bits), re...

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CONTENTS Basics : The Ark-Builders : A Nadder Myth BASICS It’s not quite certain what is the part of the galaxy, or even the galaxy, in which the Crayfish Nebula is found. But found it certainly is—hundreds of stars in a region some 200 light-years across. And most remarkably of all, it bears life....

Well, I needed somewhere to put Kisimbi after the worlds I made collapsed... MUJASU: A PLANETARY FANTASY Beyond the Light, there is nothing. The thirty worlds that make up the cosmos sit in the middle of a vast cloud of glowing dust. At their centre lies The Heart, Sua, so small and yet by far the b...

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Do you have a bit of detail on what the Crayfish Nebula is? (You probably mentioned it before, but I didn't see it. Or I forgot.) Some idea of what the conworld is like would help :) No worries! The Crayfish Nebula is a fairly compact region of space, a roughly spherical shape approximately 200 lig...

Methinks it may be possible to design a relatively realistic space combat style for the Crayfish Nebula (as realistic as you can get in a world with magic anyway), but for the life of me I absolutely cannot fathom why anyone would fight. Any thoughts on the matter, good folk?

Nobody celebrates mass sterilization or caste-based discrimination on Republic Day in India (quite certain). Nobody celebrates the Polish cultural genocide of the 1930s/40s on Russia Day or Independence Day in Ukraine (pretty sure). Nobody celebrates the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis on Indepedence Day...

Despite everything that’s been discovered recently, I want to celebrate Canada Day. It’s my home--not the only one I’ve ever known, but my birthplace and the one I choose to be my home. But the public mood seems against it, and I worry about losing any good impression I might have not only with coll...

I admit, castes per se hadn’t really appealed to me as a thing I wanted to add to Ajjamah. I can see myself developing them for the Glass Empire, maybe Reogal, and having a pyramid formation (aha) for the Army of the Dead. But the whole varna-jati thing directly? Not so much. There are alternatives,...